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Bengals Booth Podcast: Come a Little Closer · Bengals Booth Podcast

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Speaker 1: Hi, get everybody.
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Speaker 2: I'm Dan Horde and thanks for downloading The Bengals Booth Podcast.
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Speaker 3: The Come a Little Close Baby.
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Speaker 2: Addition, as the Bengals inch closer to the start of
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Speaker 2: the regular season with a twenty seven to nine win
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Speaker 2: over the Bears, coming up radio replays, locker room comments,
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Speaker 2: and postgame analysis from Tony Pike. Then, in this week's
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Speaker 2: Fun Facts Conversation, you'll get to know the player who
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Speaker 2: proudly sports the best mullet in the NFL, Bengals center
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Speaker 2: Jacob Bear.
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Speaker 4: The first time I meet teammates and coaches, Yeah, they
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Speaker 4: always like make fun of me.
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Speaker 5: I act like I'm some like redneck kill billy. But
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Speaker 5: I like it. I think it's fun. That's part of it.
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Speaker 5: It's just like a It's a.
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Speaker 4: Kind of like a joke in a sense, like I
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Speaker 4: wouldn't rock this if I was out, you know, in
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Speaker 4: a suit and tie. You know, I'm doing it because
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Speaker 4: I'm playing football. It's see, I'm playing a sport. So
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Speaker 4: this is like a fun way to.
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Speaker 5: Have fun with my head.
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Speaker 2: ensuring that it remains a premiere NFL venue. Now time
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Speaker 2: for radio replays from Saturday's win over Chicago. It's week
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Speaker 2: two of the preseason, and after a physical joint practice
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Speaker 2: against the Chicago Bears on Thursday, the Bengals starters will
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Speaker 2: not play tonight. Instead, backups will get valuable experience and
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Speaker 2: several players will look to prove that they deserve a
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Speaker 2: spot on the fifty three man roster when the season
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Speaker 2: begins in three weeks. It's the Bengals and Bears tonight,
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Speaker 2: and it is time for the pigskin to fly here
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Speaker 2: in the jungle. So I've decided to change this portion
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Speaker 2: of the podcast. Rather than a long montage of radio
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Speaker 2: calls after each game, I'm going to recap what happened
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Speaker 2: with a few key highlights. While the Bengals rested their starters,
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Speaker 2: the Bears first stringers played one series. Caleb Williams led
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Speaker 2: the offense to a field goal, but the Bengals answered
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Speaker 2: with number three quarterback Josh Johnson driving the second string
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Speaker 2: offense to a tying field goal. It was three to
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Speaker 2: three after a quarter. The Bears took a six to
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Speaker 2: three lead early in the second, but with four and
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Speaker 2: a half minutes left in the half, the Bengals took
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Speaker 2: the lead for the first time. Johnson in the gun
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Speaker 2: from the Bears. Seventeen shotgun snap pressure, coming pass for
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Speaker 2: the end zone, Colby Young over the shoulder catch, touchdown.
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Speaker 6: Bengals.
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Speaker 7: Josh Johnson. We have a dime two rookie receiver Colby
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Speaker 7: Young for the skull.
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Speaker 6: It was Dan. It was a beautiful throw over that
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Speaker 6: inside shoulder, very easily caught, very smooth by Colby and
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Speaker 6: that's a that's a big play right there.
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Speaker 2: That made it ten to six Cincinnati. The offense got
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Speaker 2: the ball back with one twenty one left in the
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Speaker 2: half and Josh Johnson struck again. Johnson waits for a
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Speaker 2: shotgun snap after eleven Toads.
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Speaker 7: Brooks lines up to his left. Johnson throws slams caught touchdown.
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Speaker 7: Tanner Hudson, who spins the ball in the back of
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Speaker 7: the end zone and his teammates gather around the football
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Speaker 7: and it looked like they were keeping their hands warm
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Speaker 7: right around a campfire.
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Speaker 6: Exactly all you need is marshmallows, toasted marshmallows and make
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Speaker 6: some smores.
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Speaker 2: Johnson played the first half and threw for one hundred
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Speaker 2: and fifty six yards and two touchdowns. I talked to
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Speaker 2: him after the game. Two touchdown passes for Bengals quarterback
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Speaker 2: Josh Johnson helping the Bengals eat the shi Icago Bears tonight.
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Speaker 2: When you started the game, Josh, they had their starters
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Speaker 2: out on the field on offensive defense. You were out
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Speaker 2: there with a second string offensive line, obviously didn't have Jamar,
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Speaker 2: didn't have Chase Brown, didn't have Tea. What did it
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Speaker 2: mean to that group to go out there against their
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Speaker 2: ones and get the job done and go down the
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Speaker 2: field and score.
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Speaker 1: I think it means a lot, just you know, it's
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Speaker 1: a confidence booster to know that if you know you
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Speaker 1: trust your training, you know you trust your preparation, you
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Speaker 1: know you trust and everybody's on the same page. You
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Speaker 1: know you can go out there and get some things done.
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Speaker 1: We want to finish the drive, actually can get a touchdown.
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Speaker 1: But it's great to go down there and put a
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Speaker 1: good draw together and respond to their field goals.
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Speaker 2: You're had great numbers tonight by my count. I think
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Speaker 2: this was your forty fifth preseason game in your career.
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Speaker 2: How much joy do you get at this point to
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Speaker 2: go out there and deal the way you did tonight.
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Speaker 1: That's a lot of joy. It's a joy, just an
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Speaker 1: opportunity to go out there and play this game.
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Speaker 2: Man.
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Speaker 8: I never take that for granted.
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Speaker 1: That's all I focus on when I'm praying every all
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Speaker 1: day prior to the game. Just make sure my heart
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Speaker 1: in the right place and play some gratitude. It's just
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Speaker 1: a blessing to be able to play a kids game
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Speaker 1: at forty years old and done it the way you
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Speaker 1: know that my journey has been, so I don't take
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Speaker 1: it for granted, and I'm glad you had to see
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Speaker 1: that when I go out there and play them out
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Speaker 1: of joy, because that's that's why I want to.
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Speaker 2: Showcase for visiting with Josh Johnson. It is such an
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Speaker 2: unusual quarterback room. What's this camp been like with Joe Burrow,
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Speaker 2: Joe Flacco, yourself, with all the experience you guys have,
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Speaker 2: hand Sean Clifford.
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Speaker 1: It's great because you're surrounded about greatness. Man, Joe Burrows great,
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Speaker 1: black O's great. You know, Sean is up and coming
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Speaker 1: young quarterback, you know what I mean, He's the smartest.
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Speaker 1: Hell's going to stay and we naturally all push each
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Speaker 1: other because the way our play style is, you know
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Speaker 1: what I mean, it's a great, healthy competition for me.
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Speaker 1: I'm enjoying it because you know, it's always ways that
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Speaker 1: you can expand your game, and you know, the challenges
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Speaker 1: that come with training can be in the third fourth
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Speaker 1: quarterback is there. But you know, we just try to
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Speaker 1: focus on what we can do and today we got
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Speaker 1: the opportunity to go out there and we're glad we're
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Speaker 1: to make it, make the best out.
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Speaker 2: Of Let me ask you about two rookie receivers. You
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Speaker 2: threw the ball several times to Dante Myers on the
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Speaker 2: opening drive. Your first touchdown pass went to Kolby Young,
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Speaker 2: one of those two young guys shown you.
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Speaker 1: They just keep getting they just keep making plays, and
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Speaker 1: now they're starting to be consistent, you know, and they
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Speaker 1: have its, you know, lining up right, being in the
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Speaker 1: right spots, being on time. You know, your treasure's continues
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Speaker 1: that grows because you know they're gonna do what they're
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Speaker 1: supposed to do and the rest is up to them. Man,
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Speaker 1: God bless those kids with a lot of odd kids
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Speaker 1: are rest those guys with a lot of ability, and
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Speaker 1: they're going out there and they're showing it on product
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Speaker 1: and I'm having going.
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Speaker 2: You played in the NFC Championship game for the forty
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Speaker 2: nine ers a few years ago. You know what a
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Speaker 2: championship caliber team looks like.
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Speaker 3: Does this look like one?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we had in the right direction. I understand it's
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Speaker 1: a long season, and I understand the process is about
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Speaker 1: what you do every day. And now what we're doing
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Speaker 1: right now is we're focused on the moment and we're
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Speaker 1: checking the boxes in the moment. And with every team
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Speaker 1: I've been around that does that over time, it works
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Speaker 1: out of your favorite So you know, I think we
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Speaker 1: got to stay in the moment. He keep taking it
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Speaker 1: one day at a time and everything that sport us.
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Speaker 3: Will be there for us.
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Speaker 2: Two touchdown passes in the final five minutes of the half,
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Speaker 2: still getting it done at age forty.
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Speaker 3: Congratulations.
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Speaker 1: God is good, man, God is good.
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Speaker 3: Gratefully, He's grateful.
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Speaker 6: Thank you.
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Speaker 2: With the Bengals up seventeen to nine at the half,
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Speaker 2: Sean Clifford took over at quarterback and on the opening
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Speaker 2: drive of the third quarter, he led the team on
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Speaker 2: a seventy yard touchdown drive by throwing for all seventy yards.
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Speaker 2: Clifford will drop back to throw again short drop. He's
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Speaker 2: gonna float it for the end zone.
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Speaker 7: Noah Thomas reaches out and makes the catch him the
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Speaker 7: back right corner touchdown. Bengals has the undrafted rookie out
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Speaker 7: of Georgia, Noah Thomas Paul's in the touchdown strike from
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Speaker 7: Sean Clifford.
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Speaker 2: The Bengals added three more points on a fifty eight
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Speaker 2: yard field goal by Evan McPherson, and the defense did
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Speaker 2: not give up a touchdown all night. The Bengals didn't
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Speaker 2: force any turnover, but did have a couple of sacks.
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Speaker 7: Rookie quarterback Miller Moss in the gun, catches the shotgun snap,
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Speaker 7: fades back five steps hunder pressure and dumped land and
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Speaker 7: Robinson with a sack. He had a half sack last week.
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Speaker 7: He's got a whole sack tonight, and he does the
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Speaker 7: naval salute after bringing down Moss.
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Speaker 2: Landon Robinson also split a sack with Isaiah Foski. Here's
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Speaker 2: my conversation with a seventh round draft pick out of Navy.
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Speaker 2: I haven't seen official stats, but I believe Landon Robinson
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Speaker 2: had a sack and a half after having a half
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Speaker 2: sack in the first preseason game. How'd you feel about
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Speaker 2: the way you played tonight?
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Speaker 3: I feel like I played pretty decent. I think there's
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Speaker 3: always no for improvement.
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Speaker 9: And as you continue to you know, get more reps
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Speaker 9: out there and you continue to get comfortable, you just
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Speaker 9: get better and better every day and that's the goal.
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Speaker 9: So I'm just trying to get better every day and
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Speaker 9: just keep getting more sacks. So not too bad.
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Speaker 2: Did I see a naval salute as your sack celebration.
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Speaker 3: This, sir?
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Speaker 9: You know, I always try and you know, you represent
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Speaker 9: the military and so fast while I'm out here, So
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Speaker 9: that was salute. I think that's gonna be my little
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Speaker 9: celebration from now on.
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Speaker 2: Land And last, let me ask you about the opening
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Speaker 2: drive of the game.
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Speaker 7: They had their starters out there.
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Speaker 2: They did move the ball, but you kept them out
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Speaker 2: of the end zone held them to a field goal.
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Speaker 2: Did that seem like a big deal since the Bengals
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Speaker 2: did not have starters out there.
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Speaker 9: I think it was a great You know, being able
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Speaker 9: to go out there versus the ones is amazing and
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Speaker 9: being able, like I said, get better every single day
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Speaker 9: and getting those repetitions. So what's better than getting those
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Speaker 9: reps versus the ones? So being able to hold into
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Speaker 9: just a field goal is pretty good.
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Speaker 2: And no touchdowns scored in the game for Chicago, I
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Speaker 2: assume that's, you know, a big point of pride.
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Speaker 3: That's a great stat.
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Speaker 9: Absolutely, that's something that you drive for every single game
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Speaker 9: and hopefully we can keep that up.
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Speaker 2: What's this preseason experience been like for you, the son
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Speaker 2: of a Bengals fan growing up in the Akron area, It's.
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Speaker 9: Been great, you know, being able to come out every
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Speaker 9: single day and just try and get better. I tell
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Speaker 9: bj tell Decks all the time that you know, I
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Speaker 9: want to be great one day, and just just continuing
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Speaker 9: to work every single day is how you continue.
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Speaker 3: To get better. So I'm excited to just keep.
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Speaker 2: Working on one of your tackles. You showed what I
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Speaker 2: thought was like this incredible effort. I mean you just
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Speaker 2: kept grinding until you could get the guy on the ground.
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Speaker 2: Is that Do you consider that to be a hallmark
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Speaker 2: of your play?
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Speaker 3: Absolutely? At the Naval CAADAM we call it elite eat.
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Speaker 9: You know, effort, attitude, and toughness, and that's something that
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Speaker 9: I try and show every single play and every single game,
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Speaker 9: even if you know I'm dead tired.
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Speaker 3: So every single snap by trying to get my all.
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Speaker 2: You guys had a joint practice against these guys two
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Speaker 2: days ago.
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Speaker 7: I thought you won that.
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Speaker 2: I mean, there was no scoreboard, but I thought the
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Speaker 2: Bengals came out on top. Obviously they won the game tonight.
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Speaker 2: That's a productive period of three days against the team
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Speaker 2: that won eleven games in a playoff game last year.
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Speaker 3: That's your goal.
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Speaker 9: That's the goal every single day, every single opponent that
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Speaker 9: would go against we give it our all and we
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Speaker 9: try and go.
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Speaker 3: Out and win. So I'm glad that it's perceived that way.
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Speaker 7: Congrats on the sack and a half and the win.
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Speaker 3: Thank you so much, sir. I appreciate your time.
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Speaker 2: The final score twenty seven to nine. The Bengals are
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Speaker 2: two to zero, and we'll finish the preseason with a
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Speaker 2: winning record for the first time since twenty eighteen. For
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Speaker 2: the second straight week, Wide receiver Dante Myers was one
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Speaker 2: of the biggest standouts. He had five catches for forty
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Speaker 2: one yards, ran a Jets sweep for nine, returned two
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Speaker 2: punts for thirty four, including a twenty five yarder, and
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Speaker 2: returned two kickoffs for fifty four. Ten touches in all
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Speaker 2: for a total of one hundred and thirty eight yards.
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Speaker 2: As myer's done enough to make the team. I'll discuss
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Speaker 2: that with Tony Pike in just a bit, but first,
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Speaker 2: here's Zach Taylor after the win. Zach, you started the
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Speaker 2: game with year twos versus their ones. Your defense held
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Speaker 2: Caleb Williams and that high powered offense to a field goal.
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Speaker 2: Josh Johnson led your offense right down the field to
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Speaker 2: a field goal. How big of a deal was that?
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Speaker 2: I was really pleased.
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Speaker 8: I thought these guys were on it, converted some big
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Speaker 8: third down for us, got some stops on third down.
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Speaker 8: So really, overall, please with how we started, Please with
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Speaker 8: how we started the second half. I thought it came
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Speaker 8: out really strong in the second half as well, So
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Speaker 8: it was an overall good win for our team. I
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Speaker 8: thought everybody performed well. I thought we tackled well. I
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Speaker 8: thought we blocked well in the pass protection and executed
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Speaker 8: really well in special teams.
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Speaker 2: Last week, he gave up a touchdown with less than
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Speaker 2: two minutes to go. Tonight, no touchdowns. The defense is
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Speaker 2: playing really well for the two preseason games they are.
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Speaker 8: I think there's a great cohesion on that side of
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Speaker 8: the ball, a lot of clarity with what the expectations
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Speaker 8: are for him, and they're executing what Al gives to them.
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Speaker 8: I think they're leverage of the ball really well and
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Speaker 8: getting the ball carrier on the ground, taking away a
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Speaker 8: lot of deep shots, forcing it underneath, making the tackle,
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Speaker 8: making the offense really go the length of the field
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Speaker 8: to be able to score. So overall, I was really
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Speaker 8: pleased with what they've done these last two weeks.
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Speaker 2: Josh Johnson is an unusual number three quarterback guys in
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Speaker 2: his nineteenth year of pro football. I think this was
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Speaker 2: his forty fifth preseason game. What has he added to
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Speaker 2: the mix behind Joe and Joe.
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Speaker 8: Well, there's just so much experience there, and so he
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Speaker 8: gets out there. It's a very calm operation. I think
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Speaker 8: our guys have a lot of confidence when he's in
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Speaker 8: the huddle that he's gonna make some plays. They can
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Speaker 8: make plays with his feet. He called his own read
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Speaker 8: form tonight. I thought he executed really well on third down.
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Speaker 8: He blitzed his some and he got us to the
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Speaker 8: right checks. And then I thought Sean came in after
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Speaker 8: that and really did the same thing. So really pleased
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Speaker 8: with the job bradszone with that room and how well
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Speaker 8: those guy's executed.
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Speaker 2: Dante Myers had ten touches for more than one hundred
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Speaker 2: yards in this game. He was signed in January. You
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Speaker 2: had him in the offseason program. At what point did
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Speaker 2: you think we might have something here?
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Speaker 8: He showed a lot of quickness. I think in the
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Speaker 8: offseason program caught our eye initially, and then he's just
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Speaker 8: continued to build on that, find find roles for himself,
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Speaker 8: and he's found himself in a really good competition in
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Speaker 8: the receiver room, and so we'll see how it shakes out.
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Speaker 8: But he's done well for himself. Obviously.
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Speaker 2: Landon Robinson had a sack and a half. Shows his
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Speaker 2: relentless style whenever he's out on the field. What is
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Speaker 2: he demonstrating so far?
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Speaker 8: Well, you're really cool. He's got quickness at the defensive
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Speaker 8: attacking position, so closes space quick on the quarterback. On
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Speaker 8: the sack, we didn't have a chance to get away
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Speaker 8: from him. So again, just I think the consistency in
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Speaker 8: the effort really shows up. He's been able to make
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Speaker 8: some place for us last two weeks.
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Speaker 2: How good were the last three days? I thought that
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Speaker 2: you came out on top. There was no scoreboard on Thursday,
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Speaker 2: but you finished that joint practice really strong and then
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Speaker 2: obviously won the game tonight. How good were these two
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Speaker 2: days of activity against a good team?
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Speaker 3: It was good.
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Speaker 8: It certainly there was a lot to clean up on Thursday.
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Speaker 8: It was good to see, you know, some of the
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Speaker 8: some of the errors we made and some of the
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Speaker 8: fundamental things that we have to improve on. I think
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Speaker 8: it was good for our guys. I have to see
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Speaker 8: that midway through training camp. But we got really good work.
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Speaker 8: I thought we gained some confidence coming out of there
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Speaker 8: and then and then probably some more tonight with the
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Speaker 8: way that these guys played.
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Speaker 2: Did you think of the play of your offensive lineman tonight?
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Speaker 8: I thought they passed protected really well. I think we
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Speaker 8: got to be better in the run game. There's some situations.
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Speaker 8: We got a holding call in a second one that
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Speaker 8: can't happen. There was, you know, probably a little more
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Speaker 8: meat on the bone that we needed to find a
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Speaker 8: way to create the run game. But I thought they
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Speaker 8: gave the quarterbacks time.
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Speaker 2: This result does not go on the Taylor Brothers Trophy,
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Speaker 2: correct because it's a preseason game.
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Speaker 8: I might have to try to forcing the dedendum there,
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Speaker 8: you know, I don't even know where we stand right now.
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Speaker 8: I've kind of lost track. We played so many games
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Speaker 8: against him. But yeah, well I'll see if I can
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Speaker 8: slip one of the commission and see if he can
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Speaker 8: put it on that.
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Speaker 2: If nothing else, fun bragging rights with your younger brother, Press.
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Speaker 8: I know I'm one to zero against some of the
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Speaker 8: preseason here, so that's really all that matters.
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Speaker 7: Congrats on the win and good performance.
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Speaker 1: Thank you.
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Speaker 2: The starters didn't play, but everybody else got opportunities. Nine
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Speaker 2: players carried the ball, twelve caught passes, and twenty made tackles.
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Speaker 2: Now time for postgame analysis from former NFL quarterback Tony Pike.
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Speaker 2: All right, Tony, the Bengals two and oh after a
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Speaker 2: twenty seven to nine win over the Chicago Bears. You
16:52
Speaker 2: were on the sideline tonight. Give us a sense of
16:54
Speaker 2: what it was like down there.
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Speaker 10: Intense. I mean, essentially the same team we've seen every
17:00
Speaker 10: day of training camp. They're focused, they're intense. The attention
17:03
Speaker 10: to detail, I think it's so hard to put into
17:06
Speaker 10: words what's being done in a preseason game like this.
17:10
Speaker 10: Second and third and even four string guys are playing,
17:12
Speaker 10: and yet not many alignment issues they're motioning, they're running
17:16
Speaker 10: different formations. Defensively, you don't see a ton of mistackles
17:19
Speaker 10: out there. Everyone seems to be confident in what they're doing.
17:23
Speaker 10: The camaraderie between the veterans who weren't even dressed to
17:26
Speaker 10: play tonight but locked in on each and every play call,
17:30
Speaker 10: it's just unique for a sideline setting. You don't see
17:33
Speaker 10: that everywhere, and I think it's something special they have.
17:36
Speaker 2: I thought it was big at the beginning of this
17:38
Speaker 2: game that the Bengals twos kept up with the Bears ones.
17:43
Speaker 2: So Caleb Williams started, he did drive down the field,
17:46
Speaker 2: but they held him to a field goal. Then Josh
17:48
Speaker 2: Johnson and the offense goes out there with all backups
17:50
Speaker 2: against the Bears starters and drives down the field and scores.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 10: Defense, they bent a little bit, but they didn't break.
17:56
Speaker 10: They got the ten yard penalty on the holding. And
17:58
Speaker 10: what I liked most with the twos Al Golden on
18:01
Speaker 10: the two of the next three snaps brought pressure. So
18:04
Speaker 10: he wasn't just gonna sit back with the second group.
18:06
Speaker 10: He wanted to dial some things up and see what
18:07
Speaker 10: they could do to get home. That made Kayleb Williams uncomfortable.
18:10
Speaker 10: Eventually it forces a field goal. Offensively, you can't say
18:14
Speaker 10: enough good things about Josh Johnson and the way he
18:17
Speaker 10: commanded the offense the first drive, especially getting in and
18:21
Speaker 10: out of checks, cover zero pressures, finding Dante Meyers, finding
18:25
Speaker 10: Colby Young, spreading it out to so many different receivers.
18:29
Speaker 10: The old line was picking up pressures. The running backs
18:31
Speaker 10: ran hard and also caught the ball out of the backfield.
18:33
Speaker 3: It was.
18:34
Speaker 10: It was complete from start to finish. And those reps,
18:37
Speaker 10: which you can now go back and study the tape
18:39
Speaker 10: of and make the corrections, those are imperative for these
18:41
Speaker 10: young guys.
18:43
Speaker 2: I don't know that there's ever been a number three
18:45
Speaker 2: quarterback like Josh Johnson, forty years old, nineteen years of
18:49
Speaker 2: pro football, and he was dealing in this game fifteen
18:52
Speaker 2: for twenty three, one hundred and fifty six yards, two touchdowns,
18:55
Speaker 2: passer rating of one to thirteen point seven. What's it
18:58
Speaker 2: mean to have that guy backing up Joe Burrow and
19:01
Speaker 2: Joe Flacco.
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Speaker 10: It's everything off the field, the mental reps. Think about
19:07
Speaker 10: Joe Burrow in a film room throwing stuff off Joe
19:10
Speaker 10: Flacco and Josh Johnson. They've seen everything. They can give
19:14
Speaker 10: insights to what they see. To Joe Burrow, they can
19:17
Speaker 10: do that in between series. But what I was taken
19:20
Speaker 10: back by was Josh Johnson on the field. He's seen everything,
19:24
Speaker 10: but he's getting them into the right plays. He threw
19:26
Speaker 10: two touchdowns tonight in a preseason game at forty years old,
19:30
Speaker 10: and celebrate it like it was the first two touchdown
19:33
Speaker 10: passes he's ever thrown. His love and passion for the
19:36
Speaker 10: game is incredible, and that's something I didn't expect to see.
19:40
Speaker 10: You know, that preseason game. He's done a thousand of
19:43
Speaker 10: these already. It's like it's the first time he's ever
19:46
Speaker 10: been out there. His love for the games incredible.
19:49
Speaker 2: How does that quarterback room of Burrow, Flacco, Johnson, and
19:53
Speaker 2: Sean Clifford compared to the quarterback room that you were
19:56
Speaker 2: part of with the Carolina Panthers.
19:58
Speaker 10: Oh well, I mean not more Jimmy Claws and Hunter
20:03
Speaker 10: can't Well, I would say, you know, one A, one
20:07
Speaker 10: B probably we would take the one B. Now we
20:10
Speaker 10: can take Cam Newton. My second year, we raised the
20:12
Speaker 10: bar a little bit. But like I said, and it's
20:16
Speaker 10: not a Jake Browning or Brandon Allen slight. Joe Burrow's
20:20
Speaker 10: not really had that in the meeting rooms as a
20:23
Speaker 10: as a quarterback who was once the young guy. That's
20:27
Speaker 10: there's no price tag you can put on on what
20:30
Speaker 10: that means to have guys like that around you.
20:32
Speaker 2: Last year, in the second preseason game, Mitch Tinsley made
20:36
Speaker 2: the team. He made two spectacular touchdown catches against Washington
20:40
Speaker 2: and then did not play in the final preseason game.
20:43
Speaker 2: It was obvious he had made it.
20:45
Speaker 3: Tonight.
20:46
Speaker 7: Dante Myers had ten total touches receiving jet sweep, punt returns,
20:53
Speaker 7: kickoff returns, had more than one hundred you know, total
20:56
Speaker 7: yards between all of that. Has he made the team?
20:58
Speaker 10: I think so. I mean there's a difference in in
21:02
Speaker 10: gaining a spot or taking a spot, and he's taking it.
21:06
Speaker 10: I mean, you look at where these quarterbacks turn when
21:09
Speaker 10: Joe Flacco and Josh Johnson have been in there, they
21:12
Speaker 10: find Dante Myers in third down situations. He wins with separation.
21:16
Speaker 10: He doesn't have the height, he doesn't have the huge
21:18
Speaker 10: catch radius. He's got to win with route running and
21:20
Speaker 10: he's got to win with separation on his routes. He
21:22
Speaker 10: does that, and when he catches it. He's north and south.
21:25
Speaker 10: He's not dancing around. They utilize him in the jet
21:28
Speaker 10: suite and that's a part of his game that he
21:31
Speaker 10: can kind of expand on. And then the special team's
21:34
Speaker 10: part of it. It's it's almost untapped for him. He
21:36
Speaker 10: didn't do it a ton in the CFL. He's learning
21:39
Speaker 10: that and he still looks exceptional at that. I think
21:42
Speaker 10: he makes this roster.
21:44
Speaker 2: I'm eager to see Landon Robinson against top notch offensive lineman.
21:52
Speaker 2: He's mostly played against backups in the two preseason games,
21:55
Speaker 2: but he's been terrific and he had a sack and
21:57
Speaker 2: a half tonight. Are you do you have similar feelings
22:01
Speaker 2: about the desire to see him compete against one.
22:03
Speaker 3: I'd love to.
22:04
Speaker 10: You know, he's the guy you hate to play against
22:08
Speaker 10: because from snap one to snap one hundred, his motor
22:11
Speaker 10: is the same. He never fatigues, never tires. He's relentless
22:14
Speaker 10: in his pursuit of the quarterback. There are multiple plays
22:17
Speaker 10: as well that he made by just taking up multiple
22:20
Speaker 10: defenders or getting penetration that the running back would have
22:23
Speaker 10: to cut. Someone else comes in and gets the tackle.
22:26
Speaker 10: But he's getting those wins and allowing that linebacking corps
22:29
Speaker 10: to play fast. I think he's gotten better each time
22:32
Speaker 10: we've seen him. And like I said, you could turn
22:35
Speaker 10: on the film and shuffle the plays and you wouldn't
22:38
Speaker 10: be able to tell what part of the game it was,
22:39
Speaker 10: because his motor and his passion for football shows every
22:43
Speaker 10: time he's out there.
22:45
Speaker 2: This is a good three game stretch or three day stretch,
22:47
Speaker 2: I should say the joint practice we give it to
22:50
Speaker 2: the Bengals, you know, by a decision, not a knockout,
22:52
Speaker 2: but by a decision and then obviously a pretty lopsided
22:55
Speaker 2: final score in the actual game. That's a good team
22:59
Speaker 2: to come out on twice.
23:01
Speaker 10: One of the terms I feel like we hear a
23:02
Speaker 10: lot at camp is stacking days. I feel like the
23:05
Speaker 10: Bengals have stacked a lot of good ones. And that's
23:07
Speaker 10: also you take the Tuesday practice, the ones we're in
23:09
Speaker 10: thirty eight plays.
23:10
Speaker 3: And eleven on eleven.
23:11
Speaker 10: So they got some good work Tuesday Thursday with some
23:14
Speaker 10: of the best work I've seen since covering training camp
23:17
Speaker 10: in any capacity. And I thought the defensive line on
23:20
Speaker 10: Thursday was probably one of the more impressive groups that
23:22
Speaker 10: I've ever seen at a Bengals training camp. And the
23:25
Speaker 10: havoc that they caused. I wonder if that's why Caleb
23:28
Speaker 10: Williams had to come out and play a series tonight,
23:29
Speaker 10: just because they didn't get all their work done on Thursday.
23:32
Speaker 10: But you talk about the week and so much was
23:35
Speaker 10: made of it. They've checked all the boxes so far
23:38
Speaker 10: in the preseason. They've got one more to go, a
23:41
Speaker 10: road trip to Philly, and then the regular season is here.
23:43
Speaker 10: But they have won. They've won individual days, and they've
23:46
Speaker 10: stacked them on top of each other.
23:48
Speaker 2: That was a really interesting point about Caleb Williams because
23:51
Speaker 2: his day on Thursday ended sack sack interception. This might
23:55
Speaker 2: have been you know what, let's have them go out
23:57
Speaker 2: there and at least not carry that burden for another well.
24:00
Speaker 10: Eleven on eleven's and we've seen this with the Bengals
24:03
Speaker 10: offense as well. You don't get to get in all
24:05
Speaker 10: the work you want to get in eleven on eleven
24:07
Speaker 10: because that defensive front is disrupting so many things. So
24:10
Speaker 10: for Ben Johnson, all the bells and whistles couldn't block
24:13
Speaker 10: the guys up front and a lot of the eleven
24:15
Speaker 10: on eleven. So go out there tonight, see some good
24:17
Speaker 10: things happen before you leave Cincinnati. I think that was
24:20
Speaker 10: a reason why. But this this Bengals defensive front, their
24:24
Speaker 10: defense as a whole, there could be some tough decisions
24:27
Speaker 10: to make when roster cutdowns happen.
24:29
Speaker 2: Final thing, it's amazing to me that a fifty eight
24:32
Speaker 2: yard field goal by Evan McPherson is now completely ho hum.
24:36
Speaker 2: I barely raised my voice in describing a fifty eight
24:40
Speaker 2: yard field goal.
24:41
Speaker 10: It's almost how the sidelines take it as well. It's
24:43
Speaker 10: almost like it's expected now, and that's probably good from
24:46
Speaker 10: sixty six sixty seven with how he hit that ball tonight.
24:49
Speaker 10: But it's not like it's sneaking in either. You put
24:51
Speaker 10: a line right down the middle, he'd hit the line.
24:54
Speaker 10: He's been locked in. It's it's not every day we
24:57
Speaker 10: talk about the specialist in training camp, especially when there's
24:59
Speaker 10: not a battle. He's been awesome, and it's it's almost
25:03
Speaker 10: as you take for granted how good he's been and
25:05
Speaker 10: how automatic he is.
25:07
Speaker 2: The Bengals are two and zero since Tony Pike became
25:10
Speaker 2: part of the radio broadcast crew. Let's keep it rolling
25:12
Speaker 2: next week in Philly, where I'm sure you will have
25:14
Speaker 2: at least one cheese steak.
25:16
Speaker 3: I can't wait.
25:17
Speaker 10: We stop at the airport, we go right right by.
25:20
Speaker 3: Can't wait.
25:20
Speaker 5: We'll see how this.
25:21
Speaker 3: Works on the road.
25:22
Speaker 2: Little inside joke there, Tony loves the cheese steak at
25:25
Speaker 2: the airport Marriott in Philly. All right, then'll wrap it up.
25:30
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25:33
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Speaker 2: the players who has quietly had a very good training camp,
26:03
Speaker 2: in my opinion, is the man with the NFL's best
26:07
Speaker 2: mullet backup center, Jacob Bear. His last name is spelled
26:12
Speaker 2: b a yeer, but he pronounces it bear like the animal.
26:17
Speaker 2: Jacob is the subject of this week's fun Facts Conversation,
26:20
Speaker 2: where you get to know the person under the pads
26:24
Speaker 2: time for some fun facts with offensive lineman Jacob Bear,
26:27
Speaker 2: who I believe has the NFL's best mullet. More on
26:30
Speaker 2: that later, but let's discuss your background. You are from Grandview, Texas,
26:34
Speaker 2: about a half an hour from Fort Worth. Tell us
26:37
Speaker 2: something that Grandview is known for.
26:40
Speaker 4: I'd say the biggest saying is our high school mascot
26:42
Speaker 4: where the Zebras, which isn't the most common, and kind
26:45
Speaker 4: of get some laughs when I tell the other guys,
26:48
Speaker 4: and that's pretty.
26:49
Speaker 2: Much Yet, Well, the Zebras won a couple of state
26:52
Speaker 2: championships while you were playing for the football team, and
26:54
Speaker 2: you were also one of the top powerlifters in the
26:57
Speaker 2: state of Texas. Did you get strong lifting weights or
27:01
Speaker 2: did it start before that.
27:02
Speaker 4: I'd say it started young, but it was because of
27:05
Speaker 4: listing weights. I made it a big emphasis. My family
27:09
Speaker 4: was like a bunch of high school athletes and my
27:11
Speaker 4: dad was really big into weightlifting. So I got on
27:13
Speaker 4: it early and then kind of just fell in love.
27:16
Speaker 4: And I think that's what got me so far in football.
27:19
Speaker 4: You know, It's just I get to be stronger than
27:21
Speaker 4: everyone else, and then the skill in the hands and
27:24
Speaker 4: the feet caught up after a while.
27:26
Speaker 7: How early did you start?
27:29
Speaker 4: Sixth grade as the most guys start, and then once
27:32
Speaker 4: junior high hit, it was like it was full go.
27:35
Speaker 5: I fell in love.
27:36
Speaker 2: So in addition to the strength, you must have been
27:38
Speaker 2: a good student, because I read that you had IVY
27:41
Speaker 2: League offers coming out of high school.
27:42
Speaker 7: How good of a student were you?
27:43
Speaker 4: I graduated top ten, which was good, and then even
27:48
Speaker 4: in college I graduated kum laude.
27:49
Speaker 5: It was a big, big emphasis it's gonna good grades because.
27:53
Speaker 4: If I wasn't, if I couldn't fall back on football
27:56
Speaker 4: to get in, I would fall back on my grades.
27:59
Speaker 4: So it very seriously and it was something that was
28:01
Speaker 4: kind of showing to me at a young age, like
28:04
Speaker 4: you know, there's no there's no half doers in the family.
28:08
Speaker 4: Like you're either gonna do it or you're gonna kind
28:10
Speaker 4: of get out.
28:11
Speaker 2: You gravitated to the right position. Center is a cerebral position, right.
28:15
Speaker 5: Yeah, And I wasn't. That's actually when I got to college.
28:18
Speaker 4: I didn't had I played center when I was a
28:20
Speaker 4: little kid, and then I got to high school and
28:22
Speaker 4: I was I mean, we're a small school, so I
28:23
Speaker 4: was kind of the biggest guy. So you get shoved
28:25
Speaker 4: at left tackle and then get to college and it.
28:28
Speaker 5: Was like here we go.
28:30
Speaker 4: Just get shoved right into the fire as a freshman
28:33
Speaker 4: and and then kind of just grew into it. And
28:36
Speaker 4: I was like then kind of owned the own the role.
28:38
Speaker 4: And that's kind of what I see myself as.
28:40
Speaker 7: We're chatting with Jacob Bear. You started your college career
28:43
Speaker 7: at Lamar.
28:44
Speaker 5: Why Lamar, I'd say I wanted to be closer to home.
28:49
Speaker 4: It was it was still in Texas, still a big
28:52
Speaker 4: Division or a Division I school, and I kind of
28:57
Speaker 4: I really liked.
28:58
Speaker 5: The coach, Saint Patrick Covington.
29:00
Speaker 4: He's a great guy and developed me quite a bit
29:02
Speaker 4: while I was there. After two years, things didn't work
29:07
Speaker 4: out with the team, and I kind of saw my
29:09
Speaker 4: opportunity to hopefully take it to the next level and
29:12
Speaker 4: move up to the FBS.
29:14
Speaker 2: Your next school was Arkansas State, where you played for
29:17
Speaker 2: former University of Cincinnati coach Butch Jones. He had a
29:20
Speaker 2: great run at UC and he was known for his
29:23
Speaker 2: colorful catchphrases hold the rope represent the sea, which stood
29:27
Speaker 2: for Cincinnati. Did you have a favorite Butcher Jones catchphrase?
29:31
Speaker 4: The biggest the biggest investment, He says, all the time
29:34
Speaker 4: is you don't know. You don't know, so like there's
29:37
Speaker 4: non unknowns and unknown unknowns, and Butch Jones knows and
29:41
Speaker 4: we don't know. So that's why you just kind of
29:44
Speaker 4: he knows the ropes. He's been ever. You say, he's
29:45
Speaker 4: been to UC he went to Tennessee, he's been to Alabama.
29:48
Speaker 4: So like, this guy is gonna know what he's doing.
29:50
Speaker 4: So I kind of just let him hound me, let
29:54
Speaker 4: him coach me up. And obviously it worked out.
29:57
Speaker 2: In your junior year, you were one of the top
29:59
Speaker 2: gradest centers in the country according to Pro Football Focus,
30:02
Speaker 2: and then in April before your senior year, you tore
30:05
Speaker 2: your ACL. The typical recovery is eight to twelve months.
30:10
Speaker 2: You played in five months. You were back for the
30:13
Speaker 2: second game of that next year. Might be the fastest
30:16
Speaker 2: ACL recovery ever I've ever heard of.
30:19
Speaker 7: How did you do it? And why did you do it?
30:21
Speaker 5: The support system of a state was big.
30:23
Speaker 4: I didn't It was truly an every day in the
30:27
Speaker 4: building thing. There truly was no off days, and it
30:30
Speaker 4: was a very risky thing. And I got told that
30:33
Speaker 4: I can try for it, but that it wasn't like
30:36
Speaker 4: I have a risk of re injuring myself and kind
30:38
Speaker 4: of messing things up. But I'd say, I'm very lucky
30:42
Speaker 4: and fortunate that, you know, that didn't happen and I
30:45
Speaker 4: was able to. I stay there all summer. I never
30:48
Speaker 4: went back home. I just all I did was knee rehab,
30:52
Speaker 4: you know, day and night. And to be able to
30:55
Speaker 4: get back in that fast, I mean it was it
30:57
Speaker 4: was tough. Well, it hurt quite a bit, and there
30:59
Speaker 4: are a time my knee looked not like a knee,
31:02
Speaker 4: looked like something else. But so grateful, you know, to
31:07
Speaker 4: have that and be able to now that I'm healthy
31:10
Speaker 4: and there's haven't had it given another thought since since
31:12
Speaker 4: my senior season.
31:13
Speaker 7: So I said, I've never heard anybody come back faster,
31:16
Speaker 7: have you?
31:17
Speaker 5: I have not. Yeah, That's what that was. They told me.
31:20
Speaker 4: They were like, well, so you know, these guys at
31:22
Speaker 4: PAMA said they can get back in six. And I
31:23
Speaker 4: was like, well, if they can do it, I can
31:26
Speaker 4: do it. Like there ain't no difference between me and them.
31:28
Speaker 4: So I got back in five and kind of just
31:31
Speaker 4: pushed through it and made it work.
31:33
Speaker 2: We're talking to Jacob Bear. Let's get to the mullet.
31:36
Speaker 2: I asked you about this earlier in training camp. But
31:38
Speaker 2: give us the oral history of the mullet.
31:41
Speaker 4: Okay, so it all started. I think it was like
31:43
Speaker 4: in junior high and I'm at a high school football
31:45
Speaker 4: game with my dad and there's this big country white
31:48
Speaker 4: dude and on the sidelines he's got this epic mullet.
31:52
Speaker 4: Dad's like, you ought to get one of those sons.
31:54
Speaker 4: At the time, I had some really long hair, but that.
31:56
Speaker 5: Was about it.
31:57
Speaker 4: And after that I got to high school and I
32:01
Speaker 4: just kept the buzz.
32:01
Speaker 5: That's that was my thing of bus cut.
32:04
Speaker 4: And I got to college and bus cut, and then
32:05
Speaker 4: eventually I was like, I'm tired of doing a bust.
32:09
Speaker 4: Let's let's do something else. So and it was really
32:11
Speaker 4: because my buddy, my buddy, my roommate in college, had
32:16
Speaker 4: a mullet, and I thought back to that guy in
32:18
Speaker 4: high school, you know, and I was like, you know,
32:20
Speaker 4: it's about time let me grow a mull it out too.
32:23
Speaker 5: So I started growing it out, and then it became.
32:27
Speaker 4: Almost ridiculously long at some point, so I started trimming
32:30
Speaker 4: it up and then I cut it after my college football.
32:34
Speaker 5: My senior year. I guess kind of is like a.
32:37
Speaker 4: New start, you know, you get a new you know,
32:39
Speaker 4: college is over, let's cut the hair.
32:41
Speaker 5: And then I was like, yeah, I miss it, man,
32:44
Speaker 5: I got to get back to this mall.
32:46
Speaker 4: I missed it too much and I started looking at
32:48
Speaker 4: my bald head, so grew it back out.
32:51
Speaker 7: Well, I'm glad you told me that, because I saw
32:53
Speaker 7: pictures of you at the Senior Bowl with the buzz cut,
32:56
Speaker 7: and I was thinking, I wonder if you felt like
32:58
Speaker 7: you had to clean it up just for the NFL scouts.
33:02
Speaker 4: I don't know, it was just something that something to do.
33:05
Speaker 4: And then it was funny. I was going on these
33:07
Speaker 4: Top thirty visits and all the coaches was like, yeah,
33:10
Speaker 4: we got this little picture here in the corner.
33:13
Speaker 5: You do not look the same. And I was like,
33:15
Speaker 5: is this hurting me? Is the bus gout hurting me?
33:17
Speaker 4: No one's recognizing me anymore, But uh yeah, just kind
33:20
Speaker 4: of like a fresh start.
33:22
Speaker 2: So you went to training camp with Buffalo last year.
33:25
Speaker 2: You were one of the last roster cuts right before
33:27
Speaker 2: the start of the season, and then the Bengals signed
33:29
Speaker 2: you to their practice squad in November.
33:31
Speaker 7: What did you do in between?
33:34
Speaker 4: See, I spent some time in Arkansas, back at Arkansas
33:36
Speaker 4: State for a little bit, and then I went back
33:38
Speaker 4: home and I actually started working for my grandpa. He
33:43
Speaker 4: has like a probably like a thirty acre ranch we
33:46
Speaker 4: used to be ranch, just a bunch of land, and
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Speaker 4: he was wanted to get some stuff done.
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Speaker 5: And he knew I wasn't making any.
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Speaker 4: Money and I'm training, and so I Monday through Friday,
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Speaker 4: I'd be there at eight o'clock in the morning until.
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Speaker 5: About four o'clock and.
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Speaker 4: I whatever he wanted to do, clean out the garage,
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Speaker 4: or you know, stack these stack these boards, fill these holes,
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Speaker 4: just random random stuff to do on the kind of
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Speaker 4: you know, he did just retired, so he's playing catch
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Speaker 4: up on years and years of putting things off. So
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Speaker 4: I got to spend a lot of time with him,
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Speaker 4: which was great. I grew really close with him.
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Speaker 5: And then I just.
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Speaker 4: Kept working out, you know, kept training and kept trying
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Speaker 4: to be ready, and had five workouts in the first month,
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Speaker 4: so I was hopeful that something was going to land.
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Speaker 4: And then I ended up going a month without a workout,
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Speaker 4: and then Cincinnati called me and I thought, thank goodness,
34:36
Speaker 4: you know, here about time he got something to land.
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Speaker 2: I'm sure your grandfather loved having you around, but he
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Speaker 2: must have been delighted when you got another chance.
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Speaker 5: Of course.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, every every time I had to call out and
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Speaker 4: be like, hey, I got another workout, he was, Hey,
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Speaker 4: no problem to me, We'll figure it out.
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Speaker 5: Do it another time.
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Speaker 2: I was watching one on one pass rushing reps. The
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Speaker 2: other day, offensive line coach Scott Peters asked Ted Carris
34:58
Speaker 2: to step aside to see you take a rep against
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Speaker 2: Dexter Lawrence.
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Speaker 7: Describe what that's like.
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Speaker 4: Uh, definitely a little nerve racking, But I mean I
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Speaker 4: can't really, I can't change anything up. It's just trying
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Speaker 4: to do when I'm coached. And I thought it went well,
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Speaker 4: I can always do better. I mean, I wouldn't count
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Speaker 4: it as a win, but I wouldn't kint it as
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Speaker 4: me getting totally whooped either, So it was pretty cool.
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Speaker 2: I can attest to the fact you did not lose.
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Speaker 2: Dexter did not get to the person standing in at quarterback,
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Speaker 2: so you did about as well as anybody can against
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Speaker 2: that guy. A few wild card topics now for Jacob Bear,
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Speaker 2: who's your all time favorite athlete in any sport?
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Speaker 4: And why this kind of goes back to the strength
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Speaker 4: and then like the powerlifting is was Brian Shaw.
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Speaker 5: He's a four time World Strongest Man, and.
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Speaker 4: As a kid growing up, I used to I mean, well,
35:47
Speaker 4: he's six eight, so I mean I wasn't, but I
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Speaker 4: was like, I want to be as big as strong
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Speaker 4: as this guy is. This dude walks around like he's
35:53
Speaker 4: nobody can tell he's untouchable.
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Speaker 2: So Brian Shaw, all right, I'll remember the name. Other
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Speaker 2: than playing and lifting weights, where are you good at?
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Speaker 5: Used to be kind of good at chess.
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Speaker 4: I like playing solitaire, maybe some like like video games
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Speaker 4: like Call of Duty. But I mean, most of my
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Speaker 4: life has been spent doing football and weightlifting, so it's
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Speaker 4: kind of hard to say.
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Speaker 7: There's a chess board in the locker room.
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Speaker 3: Have you competed?
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Speaker 5: I have not yet. That's I'm leaving the vets to do.
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Speaker 5: Get out on that one.
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Speaker 3: All right.
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Speaker 2: Final question for Jacob Bear. This one's kind of deep.
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Speaker 2: If you could meet anybody in history, living or deceased,
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Speaker 2: who would that person be.
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Speaker 5: I was thinking of my great grandpa.
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Speaker 4: I was a little, very little when he passed, so
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Speaker 4: I don't remember anything really much about him, but from
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Speaker 4: what I know, and he was like one of the
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Speaker 4: smartest dudes in our family, went to college, was an
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Speaker 4: Air Force pilot. I was a first generation American, And
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Speaker 4: I think if I actually ever got to like sit
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Speaker 4: down and talk to him as an adult and just
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Speaker 4: kind of like see how he did things, and because
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Speaker 4: all I've ever heard from my grandpa is that he's
36:59
Speaker 4: one of the wisest guy.
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Speaker 5: You know, it was around.
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Speaker 7: That's a great answer, and this was fun. I appreciate
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Speaker 7: your time, best of luck.
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Speaker 5: Thank you so much, sir.
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Speaker 7: That's going to do it for.
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